Apple, Google, and Facebook are reportedly in talks about locating research and development facilities in Russia's Skolkovo technology park, according to Izvestia.

Google Translation:
In the Moscow office of Press Apple did not comment on its intention to "Skolkovo", but according to Romanovsky, both parties interested to negotiate with each other:

- On the Placement of R & D center in Russia, we were saying, but common ground is not found, although it may find, who knows.

It's reported that Apple is in the process of opening a research and development center in Israel following their acquisition on Anobit.



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Apple has filed for a ban of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States after recent ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) which sided with Apple on whether an iPad design patent (U.S. Patent No. D504,889) is valid, reports FOSS Patents. The request comes just three days before the two companies are set to meet for settlement talks in San Francisco.

Apple's motion is fairly likely to succeed. If and when it does, there will be formal U.S. bans in place against all three of the leading Android device makers. Also on Friday, the ITC ordered a U.S. import ban against Motorola's Android-based devices (to the extent those infringe a particular Microsoft patent), and in December, the U.S. trade agency also banned HTC's products that infringe a particular Apple patent -- as a result, two HTC product rollouts just got delayed.

Apple proposes to give Samsung until May 25 to respond after which it will file its reply brief. The companies will meet for settlement talks before then; however, little is expected to come from the talks.



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An alert found in iOS 5.1.1 by iDevice.ro suggests Apple may be readying FaceTime over 3G.

Here's the translation of how the site received the alert...

Being called by someone, although I was connected to a 3G data network, when I tried to close the 3G connection I was greeted by the message of the picture above. Normally you should not be called if I was connected to the 3G, but the call originated to me did not stop, but I just got the iPhone warning I missed a call FaceTime. Error displayed when trying to disable 3G when I was called should not occur and it clearly proves that Apple is testing FaceTime on 3G connections.



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ElcomSoft has managed to figure out how to download iOS device backups directly from iCloud. The new feature has been added to its Phone Password Breaker Software allowing anyone who discovers your username and password to download your entire iCloud backup.

ElcomSoft researchers analyzed the communication protocol connecting iPhone users with Apple iCloud, and were able to emulate the correct commands in order to retrieve the content of iOS users' iCloud storage. It's important to note that, unlike offline backups that may come encrypted and must be broken into (a time-consuming operation), data retrieved from iCloud is received in plain, unencrypted form . The 5GB of storage space can be retrieved in reasonable time, while receiving incremental updates is even faster. The ability to retrieve iCloud backups is now part of Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker. Existing customers are welcome to upgrade.

Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker is available immediately. Home and Professional editions are available. Licenses start from $79.



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The 'jOBS: Get Inspired' movie has announced it will be filming in the original Apple garage and has launched a website for the film.

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The film chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, the Apple Inc. co-founder and charismatic master of innovation, begins principal photography in June and in keeping with the project's commitment to accuracy and authenticity, will film early scenes in the actual Los Altos home where Jobs grew up and in the historic garage where he and Steve Wozniak founded Apple.

Titled jOBS, the biopic stars Ashton Kutcher as the iconic Silicon Valley visionary, and will shed new light on Steve Jobs' most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him. The film covers Jobs from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that.

Executive producer Mark Hulme and Five Star Feature Films launched the production immediately following Jobs' retirement in August 2011. Screenwriter Matt Whiteley, while penning the script, utilized a team of expert researchers based on months of exhaustive research and interviews with Steve Jobs' friends, colleagues, and mentors to develop the most truthful and gripping picture of Jobs' life.

From director Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas), and Oscar winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter (Titanic), jOBS details the major moments and defining characters that influenced Steve Jobs on a daily basis from 1971 through 2000.

jOBS chronicles the 30 most defining years of Steve Jobs' life, as seen through his, colleagues', and friends' eyes. Dark, honest, and uncompromising, jOBS plunges into the depths of his character, creating an intense dialogue-driven story that is as much a sweeping epic as it is an immensely personal portrait of Steve Jobs' life.

A rousing narrative of this business and tech icon, jOBS pulls no punches and does not speculate, telling only the candid and captivating account of the life of Steven Paul Jobs.

The film is represented by Creative Artists Agency.

jOBS will be released in late fall 2012. For more information go to http://www.thejobsmovie.com.



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